Fast Facts: OhioLINK E-Books

What is the OhioLINK E-Books Collection?

OhioLINK provides a diverse, multi-publisher collection of 55,000 electronic books.

History

2000 – OhioLINK first began offering e-books from netLibrary.
2007 – OhioLINK launched the multi-publisher Electronic Book Center in August 2007, with thousands of scholarly and reference e-books, published by Springer and Oxford University Press.

Access

OhioLINK’s e-book collections are accessible to current students, faculty and staff of OhioLINK member institutions.

Statistics

Collections

OhioLINK e-books can be found by searching the OhioLINK Library Catalog or browsing the separate collections:

The Electronic Book Center contains 30,700+ scholarly and reference e-books from publishers ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage and Springer. Additional e-books and e-book collections will be added.
The netLibrary collection contains more than 15,000 titles purchased by OhioLINK as well as public domain e-books.
The Oxford Reference Online Collection contains 100+ reference books including subject handbooks, dictionaries (English, translation, and subject) and other reference books, such as quotation collections. The Oxford Companions series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations are also available.
Oxford Scholarship Online contains more than 2,000 full text of classic and newly-published scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences from Oxford University Press. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
The Safari Tech Books Online Collection consists of 7,200+ electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from top computer and technology publishers.

Last Update: April 2009